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Gut microbiota affects intestinal integrityBacteria in the gut help the body to digest food, and stimulate the immune system. A PhD project at the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, examines whether modulations of the gut bacterial composition affect intestinal integrity, i.e. the ability of the body to maintain a well-regulated barrier function that hinders bacteria from entering the body unintentionally.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-08-gut-microbiota-affects-intestinal.html
Medical researchWed, 13 Aug 2014 08:47:06 EDTnews327138395Researchers identify gut bacteria linked to obesity and metabolic syndromeResearchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have identified 26 species of bacteria in the human gut microbiota that appear to be linked to obesity and related metabolic complications. These include insulin resistance, high blood sugar levels, increased blood pressure and high cholesterol, known collectively as "the metabolic syndrome," which significantly increases an individual's risk of developing diabetes, cardiovascular disease and stroke.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-gut-bacteria-linked-obesity-metabolic.html
Overweight and ObesityWed, 15 Aug 2012 17:00:07 EDTnews264263246NYU School of Medicine announces new clinical trial for ulcerative colitisA new clinical trial designed to study how worm eggs may relieve symptoms of ulcerative colitis (UC) will begin enrolling patients at NYU School of Medicine's Clinical and Translational Science Institute. This unusual therapy has been used in previous clinical trials on patients with inflammatory bowel diseases, but the mechanism of action is unclear.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-nyu-school-medicine-clinical-trial.html
Diseases, Conditions, SyndromesTue, 07 Aug 2012 10:59:36 EDTnews263555701Gut microbes battle a common set of viruses shared by global populationsThe human gut is home to a teeming ecosystem of microbes that is intimately involved in both human health and disease. But while the gut microbiota is interacting with our body, they are also under constant attack from viruses. In a study published online inGenome Research, researchers have analyzed a bacterial immune system, revealing a common set of viruses associated with gut microbiota in global populations.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-gut-microbes-common-viruses-global.html
GeneticsMon, 25 Jun 2012 02:50:08 EDTnews259811390For our guts, not just any microbiome will doGut bacteria's key role in immunity is tuned to the host species, researchers have found, suggesting that the superabundant microbes lining our digestive tract evolved with us&#151;a tantalizing clue in the mysterious recent spike in human autoimmune disorders.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-guts-microbiome.html
Medical researchThu, 21 Jun 2012 13:20:21 EDTnews259497397Sick from your stomach: Bacterial changes may trigger diseases like rheumatoid arthritisThe billions of bugs in our guts have a newfound role: regulating the immune system and related autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, according to researchers at Mayo Clinic and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-sick-stomach-bacterial-trigger-diseases.html
Inflammatory disordersMon, 11 Jun 2012 15:45:28 EDTnews258648279Caesarean section delivery may double risk of childhood obesityCaesarean section delivery may double the risk of subsequent childhood obesity, finds research published online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-caesarean-section-delivery-childhood-obesity.html
PediatricsWed, 23 May 2012 18:30:01 EDTnews257011021Study sheds new light on importance of human breast milk ingredientA new University of Illinois study shows that human milk oligosaccharides, or HMO, produce short-chain fatty acids that feed a beneficial microbial population in the infant gut. Not only that, the bacterial composition adjusts as the baby grows older and its needs change.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-importance-human-breast-ingredient.html
HealthMon, 14 May 2012 13:58:41 EDTnews256222678Gut bugs might influence child's odds for obesity(HealthDay) -- Levels of certain gut bacteria and low protein intake may raise children's risk of being obese, new research suggests.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-gut-bugs-child-odds-obesity.html
HealthThu, 10 May 2012 17:50:01 EDTnews255885088Researchers undertake massive study of gut bacteria differences between people in different countries(Medical Xpress) -- One area of human biology that is still a major mystery is the nature of the relationship between microorganisms (microbiomes) that exist in the gut and the health of the human host. Crohn's disease, for example is believed to be due to a problem with this relationship. Complicating matters is the apparent dearth of information regarding differences in microbiomes between people who live in different parts of the world; knowledge that would greatly help scientists figure out the role of different gut microbes and how they either help or hurt people. To that end, a large international group of researchers, led by Jeffrey Gordon, has been obtaining fecal samples from people in three different countries and comparing the differences in their microbiomes. They have, as they describe in their paper published in Nature, found both similarities and differences between the groups.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-massive-gut-bacteria-differences-people.html
Medical researchThu, 10 May 2012 07:24:44 EDTnews255853463Moving towards a better treatment for autoimmune diabetesInsulin is required for the regulation of blood sugar levels. In type I diabetes, the cells that produce insulin are destroyed by the immune system. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-treatment-autoimmune-diabetes.html
DiabetesMon, 09 Apr 2012 12:00:01 EDTnews253187398Inner weapons against allergies: Gut bacteria control allergic diseasesWhen poet Walt Whitman wrote that we "contain multitudes," he was speaking metaphorically, but he was correct in the literal sense. Every human being carries over 100 trillion individual bacterial cells within the intestine -- ten times more cells than comprise the body itself.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-weapons-allergies-gut-bacteria-allergic.html
ImmunologySun, 25 Mar 2012 13:58:58 EDTnews251902727New infant formula ingredients boost babies' immunity by feeding their gut bacteriaAdding prebiotic ingredients to infant formula helps colonize the newborn's gut with a stable population of beneficial bacteria, and probiotics enhance immunity in formula-fed infants, two University of Illinois studies report.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-infant-formula-ingredients-boost-babies.html
HealthWed, 29 Feb 2012 17:26:40 EDTnews249758792Team pinpoints amino acid variation in immune response gene linked with ulcerative colitisThe association between the inflammatory bowel disease ulcerative colitis and a gene that makes certain cell surface proteins has been pinpointed to a variant amino acid in a crucial binding site that profoundly influences immune response to antigens, including gut bacteria, reports a team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, Cleveland Clinic, Carnegie Mellon University and Harvard Medical School. They published the findings today in the online version of Genes & Immunity.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-team-amino-acid-variation-immune.html
ImmunologyThu, 15 Dec 2011 11:36:32 EDTnews243171384Neuroimmunologists find gut bacteria link to multiple sclerosis(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology have found that commensal gut flora in mice is an essential part of the immune triggering process that leads to multiple sclerosis (MS). In their paper published in Nature, the team led by Gurumoorthy Krishnamoorthy and Hartmut Wekerle write that microbial environmental factors that lead to the disease aren&#146;t able to do their work in the absence of common gut bacteria, thus they find that such bacteria are a necessary link in the chain of events that lead to the broad spectrum neurological disease known as MS.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-neuroimmunologists-gut-bacteria-link-multiple.html
NeuroscienceThu, 27 Oct 2011 08:05:11 EDTnews238921497Researchers review the microbiome and its possible role in cancersIn the October 20th edition of the journal Cell Host and Microbe, Drs. Claudia Plottel and Martin J. Blaser of the Departments of Medicine and Microbiology at NYU Langone Medical Center, and the Department of Biology at New York University, present a model for understanding how cancer evolves in humans based on an understanding of the bacteria living in our body, the microbiome.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-microbiome-role-cancers.html
CancerFri, 21 Oct 2011 09:25:31 EDTnews238407921Research could lead to new treatments for inflammatory bowel disease, viral infectionsThe intestinal ecosystem is even more dynamic than previously thought, according to two studies by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers published in the latest issue of Science.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-treatments-inflammatory-bowel-disease-viral.html
Inflammatory disordersWed, 19 Oct 2011 16:13:54 EDTnews238259618Gut bacteria may affect whether a statin drug lowers cholesterolStatins can be effective at lowering cholesterol, but they have a perplexing tendency to work for some people and not others. Gut bacteria may be the reason.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-gut-bacteria-affect-statin-drug.html
Medical researchThu, 13 Oct 2011 17:00:04 EDTnews237733100Children with congenital heart disease at risk from harmful toxinsBabies and toddlers with congenital heart disease are at an increased risk of having harmful toxins in their blood, particularly following surgery, according to research by a team at Imperial College London.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-children-congenital-heart-disease-toxins.html
CardiologyFri, 26 Aug 2011 10:38:55 EDTnews233573921Tuning natural antimicrobials to improve their effectiveness at battling superbugsOngoing research at the Institute of Food Research, which is strategically funded by BBSRC, is exploring the use of virus-produced proteins that destroy bacterial cells to combat potentially dangerous microbial infections. Bacteriophages produce endolysin proteins that specifically target certain bacteria, and IFR has been studying one that destroys Clostridium difficile, a common and dangerous source of hospital-acquired infections. New research is showing that it is possible to 'tune' these endolysin properties to increase their effectiveness and aid their development as a new weapon in the battle against superbugs.http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-tuning-natural-antimicrobials-effectiveness-superbugs.html
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